Don
Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.
Principal Collins
A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.
Grocery Customer
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
Butchie
The story of a young shoe salesman whose overestimation of his own sharpness leads to gambling debts, pissed-off loan sharks, and overall misery.
Auggie
A New York teacher indulges a mad high school poet who sees himself as a mythic hero.
Robby
One woman's struggle with life - when life is on the way.
